Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend. More information to come.
Book
Dalton, Russell J. David M. Farrell, and Ian McAllister (2011/2013): Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (chapter 1,2, 5-9). 185 p
Available as compendium at Kopiutsalget, Akademika:
Duverger (1990): “Caucus, Branch, Cadre Parties and Mass Parties”, ch. 3 in Mair, Peter (red.): The West European Party System. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 9 p.
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
Albright, Jeremy (2010): “The Multidimensional Nature of Party Competition”, Party Politics, 16 (6): 699–719. 20 p.
Allan, James P. and Lyle Scruggs (2004): “Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies”, American Journal of Political Science, 48 (3): 496–512. 16 p.
Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd (2014): “Political Parties as Organizations: from Structural Theory to the New Institutionalisms”. Unpublished discussion paper. 15 p. Will be available in Fronter.
Allern, Elin H., Nicholas Aylott and Flemming J. Christiansen (2007): “Social Democrats and Trade Unions in Scandinavia: The Decline and Persistence of Institutional Relationships”, European Journal of Political Research 46 (5): 607–35. 29 p.
Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2012): "Political Parties and Interest Groups: Disentangling Complex Relationships", Party Politics, 18 (1): 7-25. 16 p.
Baumgartner, Frank and Beth Leech (1998): Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups and in Politics and Political Science, ch. 1-4. 82 p
Beyers, Jan, Rainer Eising and William Maloney (2009): “Researching Interest Group Politics in Europe and Elsewhere: Much We Study, Little We Know?” West European Politics, 31: 6: 1103-1128. 25 p.
Binderkrantz, Anne S. (2012): “Interest groups in the media: bias and diversity over time”, European Journal of Political Research 51: 117-139. 22 p.
Binderkrantz, Anne S., and Simon Krøyer. 2012. “Customizing Strategy: Policy Goals and Interest Group Strategies.” Interest Groups and Advocacy, 1(1): 115-38. 34 p.
Binderkrantz, Anne S. (2014): “Legislatures, Lobbying and Interest Groups”, ch. in Martin, Shane, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare W. Strøm (eds):The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 17 p. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).
Diani, Mario (1992): “The Concept of Social Movement”, The Sociological Review 40 (1): 1-25. 24 p.
Dür, Andreas, Patrick Bernhagen and David Marshall (2014):”Interest Group Success in the European Union: When (and Why) Does Business Lose?”, Comparative Political Studies, 48 (8) 951–983. 32p.
Giger, Nathalie and Heike Klüver (forthcoming): Voting against your constituents? How lobbying affects representation, American Journal of Political Science, published online 2015. 16 p.
Hopmann, David N., Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, Erik Albæk, Rens Vliegenthart, and Claes H. de Vreese (2012): “Party Media Agenda-setting: How Parties Influence Election News Coverage”. Party Politics 18 (2): 173-91. 18 p.
Katz, Richard S. and Peter Mair (1995): “Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy: The Emergence of the Cartel Party”, Party Politics 1: 5-28. 24 p.
Keeman, Hans (2006): “Parties and Government: Features of Governing in Representative democracies”, ch. 14 in Katz, Richard S. og William Crotty (red.): Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage.
Klüver, Heike (2011): “The Contextual Nature of Lobbying: Explaining Lobbying Success in the European Union”, European Union Politics 12 (4): 483-506. 24 p.
Kriesi, Hanspeter, Anke Tresch and Margit Jochum (2007): “Going Public in the European Union: Action Reportoires of Western European Collective Political Actors”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1): 48–73. 25 p.
Kölln, Ann-Kristin (forthcoming): “Party Membership in Europe: Testing Party-level Explanations of Decline”, Party Politics, published online 2014. 13 p.
Mahoney, Christine (2007a): "Networking vs. Allying: The Decision of Interest Groups to Join Coalitions in the US and the EU," Journal of European Public Policy, 14 (2): 366-383. 17 p.
Mahoney, Christine (2007b): "Lobbying Success in the United States and the European Union", Journal of Public Policy 27 (2): 35-56. 21 p.
Marshall, David (2014): “Explaining Interest Group Interactions with Party Group Members in the European Parliament: Dominant Party Groups and Coalition Formation”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 53 (2): 311–329. 18 p.
McMenamin, Iain (2012): “If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Varieties of Capitalism and Business Financing of Parties”, World Politics 64 (1): 1-38.
Müller, Wolfgang (2000): “Political parties in parliamentary democracies: making delegation and accountability work”, European Journal of Political Research 37: 309–333. 25 p.
Poguntke, Thomas, Paul D. Webb and Susan Scarrow (2015): “Party Rules, Party Resources, and the Politics of Parliamentary Democracies: How Parties Organize in the 21st Century”. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 3-6 September 2015. 31p. Will be available in Fronter.
Rasmussen, Anne and Gert-Jan Lindeboom (2013): “Interest Group-Party Linkage in the 21st Century: Evidence from Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom”. European Journal for Political Research, 52 (2): 264–89. 25 p.
Saalfeld, Thomas and Kaare W. Strøm (2014): “Political Parties and Legislators”, ch. in Martin, Shane, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare W. Strøm (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10 p. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).
Salisbury, Robert H. (1969): “An exchange Theory of Interest Groups”, Midwest Journal of Political Science, 13 (1): 1-32. 32 p.
Scarrow, Susan E. (2006): “The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Political Parties: The Unwanted Emergence of Party-Based Politics”, ch. 3 in Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage. 10 s.
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger (2007): “New Modes of Campaigning”, ch. 40 in Dalton, Russell J. and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Strøm, Kaare (1990): “A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties”, American Journal of Political Science, 34 (2): 565-598. 33 p.
Vassallo, Francesca og Clyde Wilcox (2006): “Party as Carrier of Ideas”, ch. 35 in Katz, Richard S. og William Crotty (red.): Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage. 9 p.
Yoho, James (1998): “The Evolution of a Better Definition of ‘Interest Group’ and its Synonyms”. Social Science Journal, 35 (2): 231-243. 12 p.
Total required reading: ca. 927 pages